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Author Reich, Robert B.

Title Saving capitalism : for the many, not the few / Robert B. Reich.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  330.973 REICH    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  330.973 REICH    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  330.973 REICH    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  330.973 REICH    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  330.973 REI    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  330.973 REICH    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Workroom  330.973 REICH    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  330 REI    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  330.973 REI    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  330.973 REI    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-263) and index.
Contents The free market. The prevailing view ; The five building blocks of capitalism ; Freedom and power ; The new property ; The new monopoly ; The new contracts ; The new bankruptcy ; The enforcement mechanism ; Summary : the market mechanism as a whole -- Work and worth. The meritocratic myth ; The hidden mechanism of CEO pay ; The subterfuge of Wall Street pay ; The declining bargaining power of the middle ; The rise of the working poor ; The rise of the non-working rich -- Coutervailing power. Reprise ; The threat to capitalism ; The decline of countervailing power ; Restoring countervailing power ; Ending upward pre-distributions ; Reinventing the corporation ; When robots take over ; The citizen's bequest ; New rules.
Summary Outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. --Publisher
Subject Capitalism -- United States.
Democracy -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Income distribution -- United States.
Capitalism. (OCoLC)fst00846425
Democracy -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00890081
Income distribution. (OCoLC)fst00968670
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9780385350570 (hardcover : alk. paper) : $26.95
0385350570 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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